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To: Zionist Conspirator

You can count the number of creationist Jews on the fingers of one hand -- for good reason, because Jews aren't stupid.


4 posted on 04/18/2006 10:39:50 AM PDT by Alter Kaker ("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
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5 posted on 04/18/2006 10:41:18 AM PDT by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is grandeur in this view of life....")
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To: Alter Kaker

What a suprise! Jews aren't stupid but Christians are. No surprise there. How about atheists are stupid?


7 posted on 04/18/2006 10:46:17 AM PDT by mlc9852
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To: Alter Kaker
You can count the number of creationist Jews on the fingers of one hand -- for good reason, because Jews aren't stupid.

From the fruit of his lips a man is filled with good things
as surely as the work of his hands rewards him.
The way of a fool seems right to him,
but a wise man listens to advice.
A fool shows his annoyance at once,
but a prudent man overlooks an insult.
Proverbs 12:14-16

10 posted on 04/18/2006 10:52:45 AM PDT by Echo Talon
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To: Alter Kaker; Lurking Libertarian
You can count the number of creationist Jews on the fingers of one hand -- for good reason, because Jews aren't stupid.

Klinghoffer is virtually alone among Orthodox Jews in attacking Darwin's theory. As I have pointed out elsewhere, most Orthodox Rabbis-- and all Conservative and Reform Rabbis-- have no problem with interpreting Genesis in a figurative way, so long as it is understood that (a) God created the universe, and (b) He created humanity in His spiritual image. How God did this is within the domain of science, and is really of little importance to Judaism.

I notice the both of you endorsed evolution without mentioning that you do or do not interpret the Torah literally once Adam arrives on Day Six. Did the two of you not read my comments in my initial post?

So are you two saying that "Orthodox rabbis" endorse the JEPD "documentary hypothesis" and the idea that the Torah is adapted from ancient Mesopotamian/Canaanite sources, or are you just hiding your own fundamentalism by implying your non-literal interpretation of Genesis 1 extends to the rest of the Torah as well?

I stand behind everything I said in my comments. Aside from a few "Modern Orthodox," academics, and Sefaradi intellectuals, all Orthodox Jews, whether creationist or evolutionist, morph into fundies once Adam arrives on the scene. If you dare to dispute these points, then say so instead of cowardly hiding behind implications of German higher criticism.

As for "reform" and "conservative" "rabbis," who gives a fig what the clergy of those supercessionist chr*stian wannabes have to say?

50 posted on 04/18/2006 1:15:38 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Vayavo'u Venei-Yisra'el betokh hayam bayabbashah, vehamayim lahem chomah miymiynam umissemo'lam!)
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